Can you do it again?

[saborfang17]

It depends on who you're performing for, I guess. If they're asking to ask, make up something that makes you look good. If they seem genuinely interested and maybe pester you a bit, I'd say it's worth telling them - After all, we all started where they are now as well, right?

Me? I usually just say books. If they continue to ask, I hit them with a few beginners' books. In this manner, you'll easily weed out those who will be dedicated and those who just want to know the secret.

 

[Luis Vega]

Edited Post...All good in hood Saborfang17!!

 

[saborfang17]

Edited.

Sorry for the misconceptions, Luis. All good now

 

[ZachMueller]

Whenever people ask me where I learned all my tricks, I usually mention the Magic Castle Junior Program, which then leads to telling them that I perform at the Magic Castle, which then usually leads to me inviting them to come whenever they'd like, which then leads to me giving them my business card to contact me. It's some Inception stuff right thurr.

More often than naught people ask me how I got started, and I tell them my experience. I don't have any witty one liners or scripted answers, I just have an actual conversation with them. It allows them to relate to me on more of a personal level, and they get to know more about me, rather than my magic. I always try to have a conversation with my spectators when table hopping and working restaurants if they seem interested in what I do.

~Zach

 

[TricksterG]

When people ask me where I learned my tricks, I launch into a massive epic story involving a buddhist temple, assassins trying to kill me and the women I rescued from a sheik , a psychopathic band of rabbits, buried treasure and a mysterious sugarbowl (for those keeping track at home that is Kung Fu, Secondhand Lions, Watership Down, Treasure Island, and A Series Of Unfortunate Events) I'm hoping to publish it....